Evelyn AU

About

Dr. Evelyn Au is an Assistant Professor of Psychology (Education). She earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to re-joining SMU, she was a Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, having co-developed the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core module on Healthy Living & Wellbeing and taught Health Psychology. Dr. Au's initial line of research inquiry explicated cultural differences in conceptualisations of perceived control, and illuminated the divergent ways in which locus of control and self-efficacy predicted academic self-regulation, perceived stress, subjective well-being, and academic performance among undergraduate students. Her research has been published in top-tier psychological journals, including Psychological Scien

Education

• PhD (Social Psychology), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008
• MA, (Psychology) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006
• BA, (Psychology and Arts and Business) University of Waterloo, 2003